Dear Members of the CHE Breast Cancer WG,

I believe that using the phrase "muddying the waters" was a very, very civil way of expressing what Mr. Lee was doing. I am disappointed in the lack of strength that appears to exist among the members of this working group. Why do so many of you remain silent on the substance of the interchange between Mr. Lee and myself. Isn't it obvious to you all that government is failing to educate people about prevention and that this is causing people to get cancer and die. How can you criticize me for just speaking the strong, reasonable truth about an obvious effort to deceive people about something as serious as this?

Surely the members of this WG are aware of the fact that government is not fulfilling its responsibility to protect the public health. Choosing to not inform the public about pollutant carcinogen exposures such as dioxin exposure is choosing to let uninformed people continue being exposed and suffer the consequences of that exposure. Your efforts to shield Mr. Lee are making you a part of this bad behavior. Why don't you want to expose bad behavior and thereby bring it to an end? The people who develop cancer because of their exposure to dioxins and other pollutant carcinogens such as exhaust contsituents have an undeniable right to place the blame for their cancers on the government and those that make it easy for the government to do this.

in Nature,

Don Hassig

Donald L. Hassig, Director

Cancer Action NY

Cancer Action Network

315.262.2456

www.canceractionny.org